Scarus quoyi, commonly known as Quoy's or greenblotch parrotfish, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a parrotfish, in the family Scaridae. It is native to the western Pacific Ocean, where it lives in coral reefs. The species can grow to a length of up to 40 cm.

Oviparous

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Distribution

Geography

Continents

Asia, Oceania

Subcontinents

East Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, Melanesia, Micronesia

Regions

Cocos (Keeling) Islands, New Caledonia, British Indian Ocean Territory, Coral Sea Is. Territory

Oceans

Pacific Ocean, Indian ocean

Seas

Sulu Sea, South China Sea, Philippine Sea, Halmahera Sea, Coral Sea, Bismarck Sea, Banda Sea, Andaman Sea

Islands

Chagos Archipelago, Spratly Island

Biogeographical realms

Palearctic, Australasian, Oceanian, Indomalayan

This species was first formally described in 1840 by the French naturalist Achille Valenciennes (1794-1865) with the type locality given as Carteret Harbour, Lambom Island, near Cape St. George in southern New Ireland in the Bismarck Archipelago.

In Australian waters, it is found in the northern Great Barrier Reef.